Splitting firewood

[Jake_S]

We had wonderful weather today after a week of dreary rain and fog. I spent part of the day soaking up the sun by splitting and stacking firewood. Of course I had to celebrate the nice weather by wearing my Stillwater Weathered McKenzie. I have found it more comfortable to wear a kilt when doing yard work than being bifercated. Jake

[piperdbh]

Did you use an ax or a claymore to split that pile?

[Jake_S]

A claymore isn't weighted enough at the front to be effective for splitting wood. Though it does work much better on skulls.

Jake

[llyd]

Hydraulic claymore here...

[Laird_M]

Hmm, having continual snow all day, with yestrays its about 6 inches in the garden, I could do with a fire to go with those logs...

[mookien]

Hydraulic claymore here...

Gas driven hydraulic for big logs, here. Electricity driven hydraulic for kindling. Very automated and very lazy, here.

[llyd]

Not to automated...but lazy...I also have a sawmill, and have been known to split whole trunks in pie shape and saw off with chainsaw...lol

[mookien]

You sound like my kind of log splitter.

[cormacmacguardhe]

Bought some wood off of Craigslist and have been spending my days splitting, it is cottonwood and some of the rounds are quite large. I have had to cut them into short pieces and then split them.

[TheOfficialBren]

This reminds me of felling trees, hauling them out, and splitting them at home with my dad when I was a boy. Oak of various species, almond, walnut, all sorts of other woods.
We used a hydraulic splitter.
Some of the rounds were several feet in diameter. One was nearly four feet on one occasion. It took several men to lift it into the trailer behind Dad's pickup. When we brought it home he chain-sawed it into chunks before we split it.
Dad would insist on cutting and splitting an entire load of wood (truck AND trailer) in a single weekend. On more than one occasion it was several cords worth. That's a LOT of wood!
Hard work and not one bit of fun.

My dad's turning 70 in February. I am very glad to see that he is slowing down with the woodcutting and splitting but I have great respect for men who split their own wood. Dad taught me that. Hats off to you, sir. That is hard work, indeed.